Drawer attachment for tables



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DRAWER ATTACHMENT FOR TABLES. No 351,635. Patented 00t.v26, 1-886,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

LEsLrE H. coonivow AND DANIEL W. GooDNoW, or EAST SULLIVAN,

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

DRAWER ATTACHMENT FOR TABLES.

f-E CIFIC forming part of LettersPatent N0. 351,635 dated October 26, 1886.

7 Application filed June 29, 1886. St rial No. 206,633. (No model.)

To all whom/ it may concern.-

Be it known that we, LEsLIE H. GOODNOW and DANIEL W GOODNOW, citizens of the United States, residing at East Sullivan, in the county of Cheshire andSiate ofNeW Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drawer Attachment for Tables,

of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in drawer attachments for tables; and it consists of the peculiarconstruction and arrangement of the various parts for service, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of our invention is to provide an be applied toany class of work-table, is'easily and readily applied byan unskilled person, and simple and durable in construction.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a drawer attachment embodying our invention, Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a table with our attachment applied thereto, showing it folded beneath the top. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the table with the attachment and drawer appliedthereto,showing the drawer extended beyond the table-top. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective viewof the arm or bracket.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the table,which is of any preferred or well-known pattern or class, to which our invention is to be applied.

B designates the drawer, which is of the ordinary kind, the one shown herein being pro vided with an open top and rectangular in form. At its front end this drawer has a handle or finger piece, I), so that it can be very easily and conveniently operated by the hand or fingers, and at its opposite end, a little to one side of its longitudinal axis, this drawer is pivotally supported on a bracket, 0, presently described. The drawer is thus eccentrically pivoted to the bracket by means of a screw, pin, or other suitable device, 0, and it is adapted to be swung horizontally on its pivot, so that it is extended beyond theouter edges of the table-top, or lies wholly within and is concealed from view by the said table-top, as is obvious.

The bracket 0 is made of elastic or spring metal, so that it exerts a pressure or force on the drawer to clamp or press it against the lower or under surface of the table-top and hold the drawer in any posit-ion to which it is turned or swung. The bracket is made sub stantially U shape, and it has its free ends rigidly secured, by means of screw d or other suitable securing devices, to a transverse batten, a, or other suitable support on the tabletop, thus leaving its arched or curved portion free to bear against the drawer to press it against the table-top and retain it in place, as described. The bracket is secured to the transverse batten, or any other suitable support, so.

Vhen the drawer is folded beneath the top of the table, it lies wholly within the edges thereof, to be completely concealed from view'and not be liable to be struck or injured, and it is held in place by onearm or portion of the bracket 0 bearing on the same, the drawer bearing firmly against the batten a of the table when the invention is applied to a table hav-' ing such a device.

The drawer can be extended beyond the edges of the top, so that free access can be had through its open top to the contents thereof, and the bracket 0 serves to brace and support the drawer in this position.

The bracket and the drawer can be easily and readily applied to a table of any class, it being especially applicable to work-tables. The invention is very simple and durable in construction, easily and readily operated and applied, and can be manufactured and sold for a small sum.

In the drawings hereto annexed we have shown the table A provided with two of the folding swinging drawers and the brackets C therefor, one drawer and its bracket being located at each end of the table; but it will be understood that the number and places to which the drawers and their brackets are used and located can be varied to suit the convenience of the workmen, &c.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a bracket made of spring metal and secured to a table beneath the top thereof, and a swinging drawer pivotally supported on the bracket between the same and the tabletop, to be pressed against the said top by the bracket with suiiicient force to be held or retained in any adjustment or position to which it may be turned, said drawer being adapted to be swung outwardly beyond the edges of the top, or concealed wholly beneath the top, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. A drawer attachment for work and other tables, consisting, essentially, of an elastic or yielding bracket substantially U shape, and secured at its free ends to a batten or other suitable support on a table-top beneath the same, and a drawer pivoted eccentrically to the arched or curved portion of the bracket, and arranged above the bracket and beneath the top, to be clamped or pressed against the top by the bracket, the said drawer being adapted to be swung on its pivot beyond the edges of the top, to permit free access to its contents, or to be folded beneath and be concealed by the top, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto aflixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

LESLIE H. GOODNOW. DANIEL \V. GOODNOW.

\Vitnesses:

HIRAM BLAKE, ADOLPH PRESSLEP. 7 

